The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or ballistic missiles with which to actually kill them. Propaganda precedes technology.

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.